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...Milwaukee, WI Ideal Date: with Broadway. At the end it decides to put me in all its parts. What do you look for in a girl/guy: Being over 18. Where to find you on a Saturday night: Watching movies on the projector in our room, which was definitely not stolen from any Harvard theatrical organization Your best pick up line: “You’d be surprised, but I make an alarmingly attractive pregnant woman” Best or worst lie you’ve ever told: I would never hook up with a pre-frosh. Something you?...

Author: By FM Staff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: scoped! | 5/7/2009 | See Source »

...hour days for minimum wage, without benefits. She said that when the workers tried to form a union, their factory was closed and they were blacklisted. “We want our jobs back, and if the company doesn’t give our jobs back then they have stolen from us,” Chavarría Lopez said. She also criticized the FLA investigation, saying that the group failed to take testimonies from factory workers or from the Honduran Ministry of Labor. Both Mirza and Chavarría Lopez called for Harvard to wait for the recommendations from...

Author: By Evan T. R. Rosenman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: SLAM Asks Worker to Visit Campus | 5/3/2009 | See Source »

...robbery, the plot thickened considerably when a mysterious character got in touch with Paris-Journal, a newspaper that was offering a reward for information about the crime. Soon the man showed up at the newspaper's offices with a small statue, one of several that he claimed to have stolen four years earlier from the Louvre. The anonymous thief turned out to be a bisexual con man named Honor Joseph Gry Pieret. He had once served as "secretary," and perhaps other roles, for Guillaume Apollinaire, the poet and art-world polemicist who was Picasso's constant supporter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art's Great Whodunit: The Mona Lisa Theft of 1911 | 4/27/2009 | See Source »

...Avignon. Though he would deny it in court, he almost certainly knew at the time that both heads were lifted from the Louvre. He may even have pushed Pieret to take them in the first place. But prosecutors couldn't build a case that either Picasso or Apollinaire had stolen the heads, much less the Mona Lisa, and both of them went free. After that, for years the trail went cold. Mona Lisa was reported to have been shipped to Switzerland or South America. She was in an apartment in the Bronx, a private gallery in St. Petersburg...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art's Great Whodunit: The Mona Lisa Theft of 1911 | 4/27/2009 | See Source »

...Eduardo de Valfierno, who told him that he had masterminded the theft as part of a scheme to sell six meticulously forged versions of Mona Lisa to six gullible millionaires. Each would be duped into believing he had secretly bought the picture that had just been famously stolen from the Louvre. But in order to carry out the scam, it was necessary to pull off a highly publicized theft of the real picture. De Valfierno claimed that the scheme netted him millions, and that Peruggia has been well paid for his part, but had kept the original, thinking he could...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art's Great Whodunit: The Mona Lisa Theft of 1911 | 4/27/2009 | See Source »

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